Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Zvi Izakson Masie currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to GARY A PORTER, JR, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit, suggesting a specific mechanical or medical focus. Having the entire active portfolio handled by a distinct examiner allows for a very focused prosecution strategy.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates that the company's current engagement with the patent office is limited in scale. Since GARY A PORTER, JR is the only examiner involved, the outcome of this case is the primary factor in their current success. The concentration in a distinct art unit further simplifies the procedural landscape for the legal team. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this art unit and the examiner's history to navigate the pending office action effectively. This focused profile means that the results in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depend entirely on this active matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707597 | ANESTHESIA MONITORING SYSTEM | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 27d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707597 | ANESTHESIA MONITORING SYSTEM | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707597 | ANESTHESIA MONITORING SYSTEM | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 05, 2024 |
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